Two Guys From Texas (Warner Bros. Pressbook, 1948)

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As we go to press, practically every one of the
song numbers listed in these ads is getting big
attention from the top bands and dise jockeys.
They’re all hot and on the way up to the top—

but it’s too early to tell which should be given

major display. Watch this important feature of
your ads and set it up to take full advantage of
the music at the time of your engagement.

Country of origin U.S.A. Copyright 1948 Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers.

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Trailer Copy

OUT OF THE GOLDEN WEST OF

BUFFALO BILL... KIT CARSON ... WILD BILL HICKOK .

STEP TWO CAVALIERS WHOSE
IMPERISHABLE DEEDS ARE FOREVER

INSCRIBED IN THE GLORIOUS ANNALS OF TEXAS!

IT’S THOSE TWO GUYS

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WHO MADE LAUGHTER

DOROTHY MALONE — PENNY EDWARDS 30%
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Directed by David Butler

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“Dead Eye” DENNIS MORGAN and “Cactus” JACK CARSON...

Scréen Play by
I. A. L. Diamond and Allen Boretz

TURNING THE LONE-STAR STATE

INTO AN ALL-STAR SMASHEROO!

* * *

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“TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS”

Orchestral Arrangements by Ray Heindorf

. IT’S A RIOTOUS ROUND-UP

Music by Jule Styne

Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

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EVERY DAY | LOVE YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE
HANKERIN' e | DON'T CARE IF IT RAINS ALL NIGHT
THERE'S MUSIC IN THE LAND e | NEVER MET A TEXAN
AT THE RODEO e | WANNA BE A COWBOY IN THE MOVIES

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“HOW TO RIDE A BRONC!

By Jack Carson

HOW TO START
With broncs this is often un-
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4.) Two winners, yours and one from nearby city be- g) Evening ceremonies at theatre at which each “Guy” is made
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‘TWO GUYS’ TAKE
OVER TEXAS IN
NEW FILMUSICAL

Warner Bros.’ handsome new
Technicolor musical round-up,
“Two Guys From Texas’, co-
starring Dennis Morgan and
Jack Carson in a hilarious ro-
deo of rhythm and laughs, will
be the next attraction at the
Strand Theatre starting Friday.

Songs, howls (also the ‘wolf’
variety) and 50 gorgeous girls
on horseback, presented against
a lavishly tinted background of
dude ranches, moonlight prairies
and desert gardens, embellish
this new musical entertainment.

Dorothy Malone and Penny
Edwards share feminine honors
opposite the two leading fun-
sters. Morgan, equally at home
in musical comedy or drama,
plays a happy-go-lucky one-
night-stand artist in this film.
This is his first musical since
“My Wild Irish Rose”.

Carson is teamed as his part-
ner, who is also stranded in the
Lone Star state, and is willing
to sing for his supper at an ex-
clusive dude ranch. One of their
outstanding duets which is heard
is “I Want To Be A Cowboy
In The Movies’.

The rodeo sequence, created
and directed by LeRoy Prinz,
features 50 beauties on horse-
back, who disport in a spectacu-
lar routine. The Jule Styne-Sam-
my Cahn score is rich and
memorable throughout the pic-
ture. “At The Rodeo” is the
musical theme for this particu-
lar number.

The girls appear in natty
wild west garb, topped by In-
dian head-dresses and _ other
trick effects which lifts the ro-
deo out of the usual class. Leah
Rhodes and Travilla are respon-
sible for the smart western cre-
ations which Miss Malone and
Penny wear, also the outfits
adorning the equestrienne-cho-
rines. David Butler directed.

Bugs Bunny In Feature

A special Bugs Bunny cartoon
sequence is an added feature of
Warner Bros.’ rollicking Techni-
color musical, “Two Guys From
Texas”, Dennis Morgan-Jack
Carson starrer, due next week at
the Strand Theatre.

AT STRAND

DOROTHY MALONE

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fun. Coming next Friday to the Strand Theatre.

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PRODUCTION

Produced by Alex Gottlieb. Directed by David Butler. Screenplay
by I. A. L. Diamond and Allen Boretz; suggested by a Play by
Robert Sloane and Louis Pelletier. Directors of Photography, Arthur
Edeson, A.S.C., William V. Skall, A.S.C. Art Director, Edward Car-
rere, Film Editor, Irene Morra. Sound by C. A. Riggs and David
Forrest. Dialogue Director, Herschel Daugherty. Set Decorations by
Lyle B. Reifsnider. Special Effects by William McGann, Director;
Wesley Anderson, A.S.C. Makeup Artist, Pere Westmore, Wardrobe
by Leah Rhodes. Chorus Costumes by Travilla. Technicolor Color
Director, Natalie Kalmus; Associate, Mitchell Kovaleski. Cartoon
Sequence Directed by I. Freleng. Musical Numbers Created and
Directed by LeRoy Prinz. Orchestral Arrangements by Ray Hein-

dorf. Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Musical Director,

Leo F. Forbstein. Assistant Director, Phil Quinn. Unit Manager,
Frank Mattison.

The STORY

It’s all about the hilarious anties of a couple of dudes on a Texas
ranch, Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, a nightclub team stranded
in the Lone Star state, wander into a swank dude ranch. They meet
the manager, Dorothy Malone, and a beautiful guest, Penny Ed-
wards, and permitted to remain, they have to sing for their supper.
Complications arise in the midst of the tomfoolery and moonlight
as the two entertainers vie for favors of the two luscious beauties.
As the rodeo nears, a pair of thieves move in and raid the box-
office. Suspicion is planted on Morgan and Carson, and Sheriff
Forrest Tucker tosses them in jail. They manage to escape just in
time for Carson to enter the rodeo (accidentally) and win prize
money. The thieves are still operating, but are caught this time with
the aid of heroes Carson and Morgan who are promptly cleared of
any wrongdoing. Morgan now wins Miss Malone, Penny announces
her engagement to the sheriff, Carson meets a lovely Indian girl.

(Running time: 86 minutes )

PUBLICITY

(Review )

MORGAN-CARSON
TEAM APPEAR IN

TECHNIGOLOR FILM

Warner Bros.’ celebrated ‘two
guys’, Dennis Morgan and Jack
Carson, disport down in the
Lone Star state in a festive
Technicolor musical round-up,
“Two Guys From Texas”,
Strand Theatre patrons who
viewed this laugh-provoking
farce yesterday, rocked with
laughter at the tomfoolery.

The fun is presented against
a lavish dude-ranch setting, re-
plete with beautiful girls, swim-
ming pools, bridle paths, heav-
enly vistas and yippee cow-
hands.

Two lovelies, Dorothy Ma-
lone and Penny. Edwards fill
the feminine roles, with the lat-
ter presenting some nifty foot-
work while Morgan sings, “I
Don’t Care If It Rains All
Night”. The Technicolor tints
are easy on the eye, with the
vivid outdoor colorings of the
southwest captured to striking
effect.

Particularly arresting is the
rodeo which LeRoy Prinz~has
staged spectacularly. Fifty girls
astride horses parade in trick
formations, attired in snappy
western garb and carrying fly-
ing banners.

David Butler is responsible
for this latest saga of the ‘two
guys’, and he delivers’ the
comedy with a deft hand. Car-
son’s top moments are when he
displays a marked fear of ani-
mals, which ushers in_ the
laughs. Morgan sings most of
the songs, and mostly to the
luscious Miss Malone.

The Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn
score ripples with hits, includ-
ing ‘Every Day I Love You”
and “I Never Met A Texan”
registering strongest. For rip-
snortin’ farce, accented with
girls and tunes, this sparkling
Technicolor round-up wins the
prize. The ‘two guys’ are again
champs when it comes to laughs.

Dennis Morgan Sings

Dennis Morgan hops from
straight dramatic fare to musi-
cal comedy with the greatest of
ease. From “To The Victor”,
this popular Warner Bros.’ star
is now co-starred with Jack
Carson in “Two Guys From
Texas”, a rip-snortin’ Techni-
color musical. He sings several
songs in this lively rodeo film.

STARLET

PENNY EDWARDS

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MORGAN, GARSON
NOW HIT TEXAS
IN WARNER FILM

Hold ’er boys . . . here comes
Warner Bros.’ sparkling new
Technicolor musical, “Two Guys
From Texas”, starring Dennis
Morgan and Jack Carson!

They’re headed straight for
the Strand Theatre, opening
next Friday.

Dorothy Malone and Penny
Edwards fill the feminine leads
opposite the two comics. In ad-
dition to the zany antics of the
starring duo, there is plenty of
musical stanzas, which features
a foot-tapping Jule Styne- Sam-
my Cahn score. The film winds
up with a brilliant musical ro-
deo which LeRoy Prinz has cre-
ated and directed with skill.
David Butler handled the over-
all direction.

Following their initial ex-
ploits in “Two Guys From Mil-
waukee”, Morgan and Carson
are now planted right in the
middle of a swank dude-ranch
in the Lone Star state. All of
the dash and color of this sector
is drafted into the swiftly-paced
plot, with lavish musical touches
inserted for that extra fillip.

One unique sequence is an all-
girl rodeo with 50 lovelies in
the saddle, and put through
their formations by Prinz.
Technicolor magic lifts this se-
quence up to a new high for a
lovely, spirited production num-
ber. Four girl riders are full-
blooded Indians including: Dor-
othy Sky Eagle, Wilma Stan-
dard, Ron Mere Darling and
Dixie Carson.

Alex Gottlieb, producer of
“Two Guys From Milwaukee”
and “The Time, The Place and
The Girl”, produced this new
Warner Bros.’ picture.

Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
Compose Seven Song Hits

New Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn
songs heard in Warner Bros.’
musical laugh-fest, “Two Guys
From Texas”, starring Dennis
Morgan and Jack Carson, which
opens Friday at the Strand
Theatre, includes ‘‘Music In The
Land”, “I Don’t Care If It Rains
All Night”, “I Never Met A
Texan”, “Every Day I Love
You”, “I Want To Be A Cowboy
In The Movies”, “Hankerin’”
and “At The Rodeo”.

WARNER STAR

DENNIS MORGAN, popular War-
ner Bros, star, who appears with Jack
Carson in the lively Technicolor musi-
cal comedy, “Two Guys From Texas”,
due next Friday at the Strand.

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DOROTHY MALONE AND PENNY EDWARDS, two lovely Lone Star beauties
in Warner Bros.’ Technicolor musical comedy, "Two Guys From Texas", Dennis
Morgan-Jack Carson starrer, opening next Friday at the Strand Theatre.

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Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

Due In ‘Two Guys From Texas’

Those famous ‘two guys’, Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson
are at it again! This time. down in the Lone Star state in
Warner Bros.’ hilarious, musical funfest, “Two Guys From
Texas”, with color by Technicolor, which opens next Friday

at the Strand Theatre.

The comedy duo, now matching funsters Hope-Crosby and
Abbott & Costello in rib-tickling films, were together in
“Thank Your Lucky Stars”, “Shine On Harvest Moon’’, “The
Time, The Place and The Girl” and “Two Guys From Mil-

waukee”’.

The ‘two guys’ team garnered millions of new fans, with
the result that Warner Bros. decided to continue their laugh
adventures in this newest comedy. “Two Guys From Texas”’ is
a rip-snortin’ rodeo of laughs, girls and songs, with David
Butler, ace comedy director, at the helm here.

“J Want To Be A Cowboy In The Movies” heads the lively
music score by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, with LeRoy
Prinz responsible for the creation and direction of the accom-
panying dance numbers. The Technicolor of ““Two Guys From
Texas” is rich with the brilliant tints of the southwest and
desert locale, For laughs, the Morgan-Carson duo is said to
chalk up another high mark in their array of comedies.

Jack Carson Rose To Top
Through Vaudeville Stint

Jack Carson now co-starring
with Dennis Morgan in Warner
Bros.’ mirthful rodeo musical,
“Two Guys From Texas”, due
Friday at the Strand Theatre,
was seen for the first time on
any stage in Hammond, Indi-
ana.

His partner in that act, Dave
Willock, now is playing Jack’s
nephew on the star’s radio
show. That’s the kind of guy
Jack is. The act may have
broken up, but never Jack and
Dave.

Jack did not forget that the
original name of the act was
Willock and Carson, with Dave
“beating his brains out to keep
us going,” as Jack says.

Goes Texan

Jack Carson, fresh from his
nautical triumphs in “Romance
On The High Seas’, goes Texan
in Warner Bros.’ newest Techni-
color musical round-up, “Two
Guys From Texas’, in which he
co-stars with Dennis Morgan.
One of his outstanding numbers
is “I Never Met A Texan” by

Dave came to Jack originally
when Carson was selling insur-
ance for his father’s company.
Willock’s idea was to go into
vaudeville, and it sounded good
to Jack. A booking agent took
a chance, put them in a Ham-
mond tryout house and, with a
12-minute limit, they wowed ’em.

“No jokes,” says Jack, “all
travesties. We didn’t know any
jokes.”

They played Junior Orpheum
time for years. As long as Car-
son has a show there will be a
spot for Dave Willock, And it
will probably always be with
Dave as Jack’s nephew, even
though Willock is two years
older than Carson.

In Musical

Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, in-
cluding a specialty interlude by
violin-guitarist, Joe Venuti and
Tony Romano, “Two Guys From
Texas” opens Friday at the
Strand Theatre. Dorothy Malone
and Penny Edwards are also
present. LeRoy Prinz staged a
brilliant rodeo for the film.

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RODEO SPECTACLE
OF GIRLS STAGED
BY LEROY PRINZ

Cheesecake on horseback is
the way Warner Bros.’ dance
director, LeRoy Prinz, describes
the novel twist of an all-girl
rodeo number in the Dennis
Morgan-Jack Carson co-starrer.
“Two Guys From Texas’, open-
ing next week at the Strand
Theatre.

“We interviewed 200 of Hol-
lywood’s most beautiful riders,”
said Roy, “and ended up with
the choice 50.”

In addition to interviewing
girls, Prinz and his crew inter-
viewed horses, hundreds of
them, finally settling on $200,-
000 worth of choice horses.

“They had to be beautiful to
match their riders,” he said.
“Pintos, painters and palominos
for which any horse trader
would give his right arm for a
stable full.”

To add the proper color that
an all-girl Texas rodeo needs,
Prinz signed Dorothy Sky
Eagle, Wilma Standard, Ron
Mere Darling and Dixie Car-
son, four full blooded Indian
cuties who are the finest stunt
riders in the business.

RUBBER ICE CREAM
SERVED TO EXTRAS

Rubber ice cream was served
on the “Two Guys From
Texas” set at Warner Bros.

Seventy-five of the 300 extras
were assigned to buy ice cream
cones from a vendor while they
watched Dennis Morgan and
Jack Carson on a couple of
bucking broncos.

The scene took three days to
shoot and the sun was blazing
at 103 degrees. And it was not
logical to ask the actors to
drown themselves in ice cream.

Besides, ice cream does not
look like that to a Technicolor
camera. But rubber ice cream
cones can be not only dyed to
the required shade, but shaped
as double deckers or partially
eaten single deckers.

Thus 75 people nibbled away
at one ice cream cone for two
days under the hot sun and it
never melted.

AT STRAND

JACK CARSON teams with Dennis
Morgan in the latest ‘two guys’ saga
in Warner Bros.’ rollicking Technicolor

musical, "Two Guys From Texas",
which opens next Friday at the Strand
Theatre.

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JACK CARSON WITH PERT PENNY EDWARDS, Warner Bros.’ new come-

dienne, who appear together in the laugh-a-minute musical, "Two Guys From

Texas", coming soon to the Strand Theatre. Dennis Morgan shares stellar honors
in this new Technicolor film.

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Dorothy Malone Discusses
Her Long Trek to Stardom

Overnight can be a long, long
time, thinks Dorothy Malone.

The Irish beauty from Dallas,
Texas, will find her name right
under Dennis Morgan’s on the
billboards that advertise War-
ner Bros.’ handsome new Tech-
nicolor musical, “Two Guys
From Texas”. But while work-
ing on that picture she talked
with a combination of wariness
and amusement of her so-called
“discovery.”

She said, “I guess most peo-
ple around the country think
that the routine goes like this:
You sit at the soda fountain,
some nattily-dressed agent comes
along and says ‘Kid, you’re it,’
rushes you to a producer’s office,
convinces him you’re Joan Craw-
ford and Lauren Bacall all in
one, and, proff, you find your-
self co-starred with Errol Flynn

and Humphrey Bogart.

“Not on your life!”

“So, as far as I’m concerned,”
Dorothy says, “overnight in
show business is more than a
sleeper jump from MHockaday
School for Girls in Dallas to
Dennis Morgan and Jack Car-
son. Overnight in three long
years of work and study.”

Dorothy’s three years under
contract to Warner’s began af-
ter another studio dropped her
from a list of players who have
since become stars, which is ex-
actly what happened to Ann
Sheridan. Her apprenticeship
included many long months of
diction, dancing, one-act plays,
tests with other players and the
whole rigorous routine to which
young featured players are sub-
jected. Overnight, she thinks,
can be a long, long time.

DENNIS MORGAN AND PENNY
EDWARDS in a romantic moment
from Warner Bros.’ lively Technicolor
musical round-up, "Two Guys From
Texas'' due Friday at the Strand,

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Dennis Morgan Likes
To Sing All The Time

Dennis Morgan starring with
Jack Carson in Warner Bros.’
handsome new Technicolor musi-
cal round-up, “Two Guys From
Texas’, coming soon to the
Strand Theatre, likes to sing any
time of the day. And he believes
that he sings his best before a
few friends around his own home
piano, in his own tiled bathroom
and in church. He has several
recordings of his own which he
likes to have played for his good
friends. They are recorded hymns.

CLEATUS CALDWELL
PLAYS INDIAN PART

After testing 25 actresses to
play the role of the Indian maid
who makes eyes at Jack Carson
in “Two Guys From Texas”,
Warner Bros. took a quick look
in their own back yard and
found just the ticket.

Cleatus Caldwell, wife of
Warner star, Bob Hutton, and
Miss America of 1940, was
signed for the role in the Den-
nis Morgan-Jack Carson Techni-
color musical, after the order
had gone out from the office of
Producer Alex Gottleib to “get
the most beautiful girl you can
find.”

Cleatus, besides being one of
the most beautiful girls in the
world, had the edge on most
other aspirants, being an Okla-
homa-born part Indian.

Bugs Bunny Achieves
Spot in ‘Two Guys’

Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros.’
celebrated —carrot-munching
rabbit, plays an important
role in Warner Bros. new
Dennis Morgan-Jack Carson
Technicolor starrer, ‘“‘Two
Guys From Texas”, opening
Friday at the Strand Theatre.
Bugs has a special cartoon
seguence allotted to himself,
with both Morgan and Car-
son appearing in animated
form. Bugs delivers nicely.

“TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS”

"TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS" with their rodeo girl friends .. . Dennis Morgan,

Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone and Penny Edwards, in Warner Bros.’ new Tech-

nicolor musical featuring the celebrated 'two guys’. Opening next Friday at the
Strand Theatre.

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Penny Edwards, Dancing
Sensation, In Warner Film

A sensational new dancing
star, Penny Edwards, bows in
Warner Bros.’ laugh-provoking
musical, “Two Guys From
Texas’, Dennis Morgan-Jack
Carson ‘Technicolor _ starrer,
opening next Friday at the
Strand Theatre.

She hails from the Broadway
musical stage, danced and sang
in Cole Porter’s “Let’s Face It”;
“Ziegfeld Follies’, the Olsen &
Johnson madcap entertainment,
“Laffing Room Only’, and other
smash musicals. For style and
personality, Miss Edwards has
been considered by Hollywood
insiders to be in the class with
Marilyn Miller, June Haver, Lu-
cille Bremer and Eleanor Pow-
ell.

She was born August 24,
1928, in Jackson Heights, New
York, the daughter of Ethel
(Reaser) and Charles C. Ed-
wards. Her father is in the in-
surance business.

Penny started out with a non-
professional name, the birth
records in the Borough of
Queens noting that she was
called Millicent. She would have

normally fallen into the Milli-
cent rut, and would have been
known by her schoolmates as
Millie, but she declared verbal
warfare on any of her friends
so inclined.

Then there was an era when
her chums tagged her’ as
“Cent.” This, too, brought fire
to the eye and it wasn’t long
before she coined the name of
Penny, And Penny she has re-
mained to this day.

Tommy Hyde gave her her
first dancing lessons at the age
of 6, and Alan Corelli arranged
for her first professional ap-
pearance. Penny accumulated
the stature of a _ successful
Conover model, and as such she
bathed in fluffy bath soaps,
bared her teeth to show she
brushes right, tried on nylons,
submitted to taste tests of soda
pop, and once modelled as a
nurse who “would use only one
kind of bandage and if she
didn’t have it, she’d walk two
miles to get it, even if the pa-
tient died.” “Two Guys From
Texas” is her first feature-role
film. She’s someone to watch.

SQUAW GETS HER MAN

"HEAP BIG WELCOME .. ." greets Jack Carson in Warner Bros.’ handsome

Technicolor musical comedy, "Two Guys From Texas", replete with songs and

girls. Dennis Morgan is co-starred in this film opening Friday at the Strand.

Dorothy Malone and Penny Edwards vie for feminine honors opposite the two
funsters in this lively musical rodeo.

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